The 25 Best Travel Journals Every Traveler Wants!

Whether you’re traveling for the first time or you’re a seasoned traveler, a travel journal is a must-item. It’s the best way to remember fun little details of your trip and the names of all the amazing people you will meet on the way. Trust me, you will regret it if you don’t take a journal. This is also why travel journals are always good travel gifts. It’s small, it’s practical and it’s personal.

On this list, you will find journals for all types of travelers. From travel journals with pockets to travel bullet journals and the best travel journals for certain destinations, you will find them all on today’s list!

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The best travel journals for large budgets

#1 Personalized leather travel journal

Let’s start this list with a beautiful personalized journal. It’s a leather journal that’s available in ten different colors and ten different imprints. From compasses, bees, and mountains to travel quotes. Plus the option to add a name at the bottom.

The inside of the journal is just blank paper. There are no checklists, prompts, or other structured pages. Making this one of the best journals for people who prefer to have freedom. The unstructured pages allow them to be as creative as they please.

And what I love about this journal is that the paper is refillable, so you can reuse this journal for every single trip.

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#2 Personalized map journal

Are you looking for travel journal gift ideas and do you already know where the recipient is going to travel to?

In that case, you can also opt for this personalized map journal with pockets!

It allows you to add a personalized message and pick the map.

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#3 My travel journal

No, this is not the travel journal I personally use myself, it is simply the name of the journal.

My travel journal is a travel bullet journal that includes checklists, recommendations, and highlights, but with plenty of blank pages for travelers to add their personal notes and checklists. It’s a hardcover, making it perfect for resisting damage on long trips!

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#4 USA travel journal

Are you looking for travel journal ideas for someone who is going to the US? Or are you going to the US yourself?

Then this cool travel bullet journal of 50 states traveled in the USA is perfect for you!

Each state has two pages in this journal with specific prompts, so you will remember all the fun little details that happened while you were traveling there.

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#5 Faux leather travel journal

For all vegan and sustainable travelers among us who love the leather look, but not the leather production, this faux leather journal is perfect!

It’s made with faux leather and comes with great prompts to help you get started with travel journaling.

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#6 Stitch travel journals

This stitch travel notebook is one of the most unique and cool travel journals on this list!

It comes with a small needle and thread, allowing the traveler to stitch out the countries he or she has already visited. Making it a super cool handmade notebook!

It’s basically a cover for an A5 notebook, so once the notebook is full, you can simply remove the cover and use a new notebook for your next adventure.

There is also a European version for people who are traveling to Europe.

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#7 Personalized memory scrapbook

This is one of the best travel journals for people who like to save tickets, notes, and all sorts of memories from their trips. This travel adventures scrapbook is a travel journal with thick luxury pages, and personalized postcards, and travel tags.

It’s not really a notebook for random thoughts, but rather a travel journal that serves as a trip album!

And for couples, you can also go for this couple’s adventure book.

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#8 Ring binder journal

This leather binder is not only a beautiful travel journal, but it’s also super practical in multiple ways. First, because it’s a ring binder, you can reuse it for different trips. Just take out the paper, and blank paper and you’ve got a brand new journal.

Second, it comes with zipper pouches for things such as tickets, local currencies, and basically everything you would like to remember from your trip.

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#9 Traveler’s playbook journal

This is a really cool travel journal for someone who is planning a trip around the world. Or for someone who likes a short summary of every country they’ve visited.

Because the Traveler’s Playbook contains a page with prompts for each country in the world, plus other awesome pages such as checklists, new friend pages, and a world map.

It’s probably more of a travelogue that travelers can fill over time as they visit more and more countries, as opposed to a daily travel journal. But I think it’s a pretty cool memory book that travelers will want to keep forever.

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The best travel journals for mid-budgets

#10 Moleskin travel journals

This Traveller’s journal by Moleskin is a beautiful and super organized travel journal with pockets for travelers to save their important documents or fun items such as tickets.

Besides a travel journal section, it also includes pre-trips lists and other use checklists. And let’s not forget the cute stickers that come with the journal too.

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#11 Personalized travel journals with map

What’s a better travel notebook than one which is personalized?

If you didn’t like the design of the other personalized travel journals. No worries, there are different ways in which you can personalize a travel notebook.

This one on Etsy gives you the possibility of adding a personalized map to the cover!

So are you getting a gift for someone who is traveling to Australia? You can get a personalized travel journal with a map of Australia (or check out my other gift ideas for Aussie fans).

Plus you can add personalized messages on the small aluminum plaque, giving it an even more personal touch. And the person receiving this gift will always have a cute personal message from you on the road!

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#12 Sustainable travel journal

This is is the best journal for sustainable travelers. A journal that’s made from recycled paper and eco-friendly bamboo.

You can personalize the cover and the free pen. It contains 140 ruled pages. So it’s great for people who don’t want prompts and prefer to have freedom when it comes to their creativity.

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#13 Personalized ski pass travel journals

Are you looking for the best travel journals for someone who is going skiing or snowboarding?

No worries, there are even cool travel journals for that, such as this ski pass journal.

The journal will include the person’s name, destination, and travel dates on the cover in ski pass style!

Inside the travel notebook, you will find regular lined pages, so the traveler can write whatever they want to remember from the trip.

Alternatively, you can also go for a ski logbook in which they can keep track of all their slopes, and track in a structured way.

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#14 Prompted travel journal

This awesome structured notebook includes plenty of space for travelers to write down whatever they feel like writing.

But it also includes sections to help the traveler get started, such as a planning section, calendar, world map, accommodation pages, packing list, and structured budget pages.

To make sure they don’t forget anything important before, during, and after the trip! So it’s a mix of a bullet travel journal and a regular one! It contains prompts for five separate trips, so you can reuse it a few times.

Plus it comes with fun travel-themed stickers to decorate the journal.

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#15 Roadtrip travel journal

If you are looking for travel journal ideas for people who love road trips, this road trip journal is perfect for you!

It comes with prompts to help them remember all the little details of every road trip they take; from pit stops to the miles, to the costs, to the passengers on that trip. But there is also enough blank space for them to write whatever they want.

Oh, and for people who love US road trips, this US road trip passport journal is perfect.

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#16 Typography world map travel journal

This is a cute typography world map journal that works for any type of traveler. Men or women, with destinations in African, European, Asian, American, or Oceanian countries. It’s just a cool cover of the map of the world in typography.

The pages in the travel notebook can either be ruled, graph, or blank, but it’s not a travel bullet journal. So it doesn’t include things such as checklists, budget breakdowns, or emergency contacts. It’s all up to the traveler what they would like to write in this travel notebook.

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#17 Let’s go travel journal

This is another one of the best travel journals for travelers who prefer a simple notebook over bullet travel journals. You can pick ruled, graph, or blank pages as well, but other than that there is nothing to be personalized here.

The cover with “Let’s Go” is pretty cool by itself already!

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#18 Refillable vegan leather world map journal

If you are looking for fun travel journals for sustainable travelers, I think this faux leather refillable journal with the globe is perfect.

You can’t personalize it, but because it contains a world map, I’m pretty sure travelers will love it anyway.

The pages are either blank or ruled (you can order both types of refills). So it’s not a special travel bullet journal. But I am sure that many travelers don’t need any help with writing about everything they experience when traveling!

Also, check out these 25 sustainable travel gifts for more inspiration.

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#19 Stub travel journal with pockets

This travel notebook with pockets by Uncommon Goods is perfect for travelers who love to collect photos, tickets, and other fragments that will help them to remember their journey!

Besides the pockets where they can put the items in, it also comes with black pages for them to write down about their journal beside the tickets!

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The best travel journals for small budgets

#20 The mindful travel journal

Are you looking for the best travel journals for mindful travelers? Or for someone who is into meditation and mindfulness?

Then this mindful journal on Amazon is the perfect gift!

This is not a travel notebook like any other. It doesn’t just provide the person with lines to write their stories or a checklist for their trip. No, it includes simple mindfulness techniques to help travelers enjoy the places they visit even better. And of course, to develop a peaceful mind!

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#21 Travel journals with quotes

Travel quotes can work super inspiring for people who are about to write about their trip.

So in case you want to get them even more excited about traveling. Why not check out this travel notebook with the quote

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart”.

It’s a classic travel quote and perfect for people who love inspirational quotes!

Or head over to Etsy for more than a thousand awesome journals with quotes.

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#22 A page-a-day journal

This is an awesome travel journal with pockets and prompts. For each day on your journey, you get to fill a page with some generic information about that day (weather, location) and you have space to write down anything that comes to mind about that particular day.

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#23 Indestructible travel notebook

This indestructible notebook is the best notebook for people who tend to break everything. Or people who will probably spill coffee, tea, or just water on their travel notebook and ruin their notes on their entire trip. Which would be a shame!

Luckily for those people, there is the indestructible notebook which included waterproof pages, on which you won’t even see smudges, or which won’t break by anything. Not even at the bottom of a heavy backpack!

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#24 Travel checklist journal

The travel checklist journal is one of the best travel journals for people who not only want to keep notes about their trip but who also need extra checklists. It includes many essential travel checklists, such as packing lists, things to do, don’t forget, budget lists, and much more!

Of course, there is also space for personal notes, but the journal is really meant as a tool for checklists during your trip, rather than a memory for after your trip. One is not better than the other, but it is an essential difference and it depends on what the traveler prefers.

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#25 Faux leather compass journal

This beautiful fake leather journal is perfect for any type of traveler.

But what makes this one of the best travel journals is the fact that it’s a refillable one. Meaning that they can use this notebook over and over again. They can bundle the notes after each separate trip and they never have to buy a new travel notebook again.

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Final note on these travel journal gift ideas

Alright, these were the 25 best travel journals! I hope you found the perfect journal to give (or for yourself of course!). Do you need more inspiration? Check out the editor’s top 3.

• Large budget: Stitch journal (#6)
• Mid budget: Moleskin traveller’s journal (#10)
• Small budget: Journal with quote (#21)